Julius Stockhausen was a German singing master. In 1845 he entered the
Paris Conservatoire, where he studied piano with Hallé and
Stamaty and singing with Manuel García. In 1849 he again
studied
with Garcia in London. He quickly won fame as a remarkable concert
singer. From 1862 to 1869 he resided in Hamburg as conductor of the Philharmonic Society
and Singakademie.
The next five years he spent in Stuttgart as Kammersänger to
the King of Württemberg, then he became conductor of Stern's Gesangverein
at Berlin, where he remained until 1878, being then called to Hoch's Conservatory
at Frankfurt as professor of singing. Differences with Raff, the
director, led to his resignation the following year and the
establishment of his own school, which immediately became world famous.
After Raff's death (1882), Stockhausen returned to the conservatory,
but continued his own school. He wrote an excellent Gesangmethode
(1886), translated into English by his pupil Sophie Löwe (new
edition, 1907).